Presented by R.H. Thomson
Saturday Lunch and Learn Plenary Session
This session is open to all Conference attendees
Stories are essential. We often live by them but those from our past can entrap us.
I grew up hearing the tales of my eight great uncles who fought in the First World War. Seven lost their lives.
Like our nation’s stories, our family stories can become woven into our identity. Is this wise?
The question of what we do with ancestors’ stories, and what they do to us, may depend on who is telling them and why they are told.
Like any tool, the power of story must be used with care.
Marshall McLuhan once said, “Violence is essentially the form of the quest for identity.”
R.H. Thomson – By The Ghost Light: Wars, Memory and Families
